Dingjiangshan

In the Renshou Palace, which had been as quiet as a mausoleum for several months, suddenly there was an extremely mournful cry.

The imperial guard guarding the gate of the palace trembled in fright at the voice, subconsciously poked his head to look into the door, and was immediately slapped on the back of the head by his colleague.

"What are you looking at!" The colleague scolded softly: "Your Majesty is inside, you poke around and watch out for your own life."

"It's too horrible." The imperial guard retracted his head with lingering fear, and sucked his teeth: "It sounds like the voice of the empress dowager."

"Just don't worry about it." The colleague straightened his body and said in a low voice: "Anyway, what happens is none of our business. If you are a servant in the palace, throw your ears and eyes out of the palace gate."

The imperial guard also knew the pros and cons of it, and patted his chest, not daring to look any further.

The main hall was in chaos, Ning Jing was so frightened by Ruan Yin's voice that he burst into tears, He Wenting frantically tried to take the child away, Ruan Yin grabbed the child in grief, somehow broke the longevity lock on Ning Jing's neck up.

The gold inlaid jade was quite heavy, and rolled along Ning Jing onto Ruan Yin's lap, smashing a hole in the letter on Ruan Yin's lap.

Ruan Yin wanted to grab the piece of paper, but unfortunately her hands shook too much, not only failed, but tore a big gap in the piece of paper.

Ning Zheng's handwritten letter dispelled the last layer of doubt in Ruan Yin's heart, and also dispelled the iron wall in her heart that had spread out of despair.The news that Ning Zheng is still alive is like a new sprout on the ruins, which makes Ruan Yin feel happy, and at the same time makes those pains and regrets return to her body.

Ruan Yin's family is well-off, she became a queen when she was young, and she has been married to Ning Zongyuan for decades, and she has never been so dishonorable.

Ning Yan twirled the bead string in his hand without making a sound.

He released Ning Zheng earlier, so he had this kind of thought.After all, Ruan Yin is his aunt, no matter how big a mistake she made, Ning Yan can't really kill her. The word of filial piety is the first, the damage to reputation is small, and the world's people gossip is the big one.

But the harem can't always let Ruan Yin'an sit here peacefully. Although Ning Yan didn't take her mother and son to heart, she couldn't help but fear that the she-wolf who lost her child would go mad and bite him from the dark .

That being the case, it is better to hit a stick and give a sweet date, so that the empress dowager, who has been going smoothly all her life, should be informed and sensible, and take the initiative to step down this step, so that everyone will look better to each other.

Otherwise, if Ruan Yin refused to take this toast, Ning Yan could only show her another fine wine.

Fortunately, Ruan Yin is not a fool after all, she cried for a while, then gradually escaped from the joy and sorrow, and slowly wiped the corners of her eyes with a towel.

"Come here." Ruan Yin said.

Now, the only one who can listen to her orders in the room is Ruan Yin's closest court lady.Ruan Yin raised her hand at her and ordered: "Go and get the wooden box next to Ai's pillow."

The palace lady subconsciously glanced at Ning Yan, didn't dare to say anything more, blessed her, turned and went to the inner room.

After a while, the woman came back with a long wooden box as long as her forearm, and handed it to Ruan Yin.

Ruan Yin caressed the lines on the wooden box and sighed long.

Just before today, she thought that the big deal would be to fight Ning Yan to the death.She has already lived to such an advanced age, and her family is ruined and she is alone. Even if she can't die with Ning Yan, it's good to bite off a piece of his flesh.

But not anymore.

Ning Zheng and his wife, as well as Ning Jing, are in Ning Yan's hands, she can't and dare not think about those things anymore.Their family lost completely, and they no longer had the energy to fight hard.

In fact, Ruan Yin knew why Ning Yan didn't tell her this at the beginning - he just wanted himself to taste the taste of having nothing clearly, and wait until she was almost desperate before showing mercy to her and telling her the truth.She had tasted such a painful experience just now, and now she will definitely hold on to this little chance, and dare not do it again.

Ruan Yin knew how vicious Ning Yan's move was, but she really had no power to fight back.

"...It's a coincidence that you came today." Ruan Yin caressed the box and said in a low voice, "If it were tomorrow, I'm afraid that even if Aijia wanted to give in to you, it would be impossible."

Ning Yan raised his eyebrows, but said nothing.

Ruan Yin was silent for a while, then sighed in a low voice, opened the lid of the box, and signaled the maid beside her to pass the box to Ning Yan.

To Ning Yan's surprise, there were actually two imperial edicts in the box.

Ning Yan was slightly taken aback, looked at Ruan Yin suspiciously, and reached out to take it out.

Just as he guessed, the upper layer was the imperial decree left by Ning Zongyuan to confer the queen.But the content of the other letter made Ning Yan never expect it.

That was the last decree left by Ning Zongyuan to the Shu family. It clearly stated that if Ning Zheng made mistakes in his words and deeds in the future, even if he committed a heinous crime, Ning Yan would also ask Ning Yan to take care of his brotherhood and leave him a way out in Beijing. Circle ban.

——It was to ask Ning Yan to keep Ning Zheng alive.

"When Shu Qinghui said it, the Ai family actually hated him too." Ruan Yin said: "I hate him for only caring about protecting himself, and he refused to take out this decree before. But the Ai family also knows that who in this world doesn't want to protect themselves? ——So although Aijia hates him, he hates you more after all, so he can only fall for his trap."

On Ning Yan's face, he closed the lid without revealing anything, but there was already a storm in his heart.

——Fortunately, he came today, Ning Yanhou thought with fear.

If not, he would have to suffer a huge loss if the imperial edict flowed to the previous court tomorrow morning.

"But now that this is the case, the Ai family doesn't have much to ask for, and I leave it to you, and it's over." Ruan Yin said in a low voice: "The Ai family knows that you can't be unsuspecting of the Ai family—— That being the case, the Ai family will ask you to leave the palace to practice after a while, and spend the rest of your life in the imperial temple praying for the late emperor, so this can be regarded as an explanation for you."

Ning Yan knew that she didn't do it for herself at all, but for the peace of his son who had become.But no matter how you say it, for Ning Yan, as long as the result achieves his goal, he doesn't care what the other party thinks.

"Since the empress mother has plans in mind, it's not easy for the son to persuade her." Ning Yan stood up holding the box with a calm expression, and said: "If the empress mother chooses a day to leave the palace, she can just ask the imperial guards to escort her. "

Ning Yan thought that he had nothing to say to Ruan Yin, so he nodded slightly and wanted to turn around and leave.

"Ning Yan." Unexpectedly, Ruan Yin suddenly stopped him: "You keep Zheng'er and take his child away, it's not for the sake of brotherhood, right?"

Ning Yan paused, raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Ruan Yin, and waited for her next words.

"You really made such a big circle just for a man?" Ruan Yin said.

Ning Yan looked at Ruan Yin fixedly, neither saying yes nor no.

But Ruan Yin already knew the answer from his silence.

Ruan Yin shook her head, smiled self-deprecatingly, and stood up holding the gold-encrusted jade lock in her hand.

In just a few breaths, Ruan Yin had tidied herself up, except for the slightly red eyes, she no longer looked like she had cried.She brushed off the hem of her clothes, and she looked like the graceful and scheming queen mother again.

"You are more daring than the late emperor." Ruan Yin said.

"Thank you for the compliment." Ning Yan said lightly.

He stood in the center of the hall without changing his face, his back was straight, and He Wenting beside him was holding Ning Zheng's infant son in his arms, with his head hanging down and not saying a word.

Once the matter of Ruan Yin was over, Ning Yan lost even the last bit of worry.

But Ning Zongyuan's second will really caught him by surprise. If he hadn't met Ruan Yin in advance on a whim today, the matter would have been serious.

At that time, not only would he not be able to manage the Shu family, but he would also be beaten up by the clan members, saying that he suppressed his siblings in spite of the late emperor's wishes.

——No wonder the Shu family dared to stand on Ruan Yin's side so easily, and the co-authors were waiting for him here.

Anyway, his family didn't really participate in the rebellion, Jiang Xuan's poisoning can also be presumed to be ignorant, and there is also a reason for doing things for Ruan Yin and Ning Zheng.Anyway, with Ning Zongyuan's will, everything that Ning Yan said was justified.

There are really traps everywhere, and there is no sloppy step, Ning Yan thought with a headache.

At times like this, he really wanted to see Ning Huaijin.Fortunately, Ning Huaijin knew that he had gone to Ruan Yin Palace, and was worried, so she never returned to Linhua Palace, but waited for him in the palace.

"What did Ruan Yin say?" Ning Huaijin asked.

"It is said that he will go out of the palace to practice, and he will never come back for the rest of his life." Ning Yan took off his cloak and handed it to He Wenting, rubbing his forehead tiredly.

"This is a good thing, why is His Majesty not happy?" Ning Huaijin asked.

Ning Yan didn't speak, and handed the wooden box to Ning Huaijin.Ning Huaijin was at a loss, opened the box and read the two wills one by one, with a feeling of "as expected".

"Fortunately, Your Majesty went to see Ruan Yin today." Ning Huaijin was also a little scared: "Otherwise, things will be troublesome."

Ning Yan pulled him to sit on the couch, and said, "But Uncle Huang doesn't seem too surprised."

"It's something that Brother Huang can do." Ning Huaijin said.

"Sometimes I don't know what my father is thinking." Ning Yan smiled wryly and shook his head: "Obviously he was the one who let me and my third brother fight each other, but he insisted on leaving such an imperial edict to protect my third brother— —Do you think he is cruel or kind?"

"I don't think so." Ning Huaijin said.

"Huh?" Ning Yan was a little surprised that Ning Huaijin could say such a thing: "How do you say it?"

"When the emperor chose His Majesty, he actually said something like this—he said, 'Maybe this world will be better with a different monarch.'" Ning Huaijin said: "So according to the emperor's temperament, , this is probably a guarantee."

"The reason why this decree was given to Shu Qinghui instead of Ruan Yin must be for this guarantee." Ning Huaijin reached out and clicked on the decree, and said, "The late emperor probably didn't want this decree to appear in the world."

Ning Yan was slightly taken aback.

"I think, if His Majesty didn't let Ning Zheng go because of a mistake, he would have to marry Shu Qiuyu today." Ning Huaijin said.

Ning Yan suddenly understood.

Ning Zongyuan must have already figured it out, Shu Qinghui would not care about Ning Zheng's life and death at all, he would only care more about the prosperity of his family.Therefore, if Ning Yan hadn't killed Ning Zheng, this secret decree would be useless.And if Ning Yan really killed Ning Zheng, Shu Qiuyu would never take out this imperial decree in advance, but would just keep it and wait until Ning Yan made a mistake, and then use it to negotiate terms with him.

It's just that the first emperor had calculated thousands of times, and he didn't count what happened to Ning Huaijin.

Shu Qinghui knew that it was impossible for Ning Yan to compromise on the matter of becoming a successor, so he could only be forced to completely stand on Ruan Yin's boat and entrust this imperial edict to her, so he wanted to find a long way to achieve his goal.

And before knowing the truth, Ruan Yin hated him to the bottom of her heart, so how could she not seize such a chance to make him lose everything and break her bottom line.

"...It's dangerous." Ning Yan suddenly grabbed Ning Huaijin's hand, and said in fear: "I won the third brother, but almost lost to the first emperor."